Mohs Elected MNA President

Mohs Elected MNA President

Bloomington, Minn. (January 24, 2014) – Pete Mohs, publisher of the Echo Journal was elected president of the Minnesota Newspaper Association (MNA), Friday, January 24, during the Association’s annual meeting at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bloomington. Mohs is the 134th president of MNA, representing 345 newspapers across the state.

Mohs began his newspaper career at age 16 as a part-time sports writer with the St. Cloud Times. After graduation from St. Cloud State University, Mohs was hired by the Brainerd Dispatch as a full-time news reporter in 1983. He later became assistant sports editor, and switched to advertising sales for the Dispatch in 1995. He became assistant advertising director in 1999, and was promoted to publisher of Echo Publishing in 2004. Mohs continues today as publisher of Echo Publishing, which combined the Lake Country Echo (Pequot Lakes) and the Pine River-Journal weekly newspapers into the Echo Journal in 2013. The newspapers were recently sold to Forum Communications Company.

Mohs served on the MNA advertising and new media committees for five years before joining MNA’s journalism education committee and becoming its chair. He joined the MNA board of directors in 2008.

About the Minnesota Newspaper Association

MNA is the voluntary trade association of all general-interest newspapers in the State of Minnesota, acting on behalf of the newspaper press of the state, representing its members in the legislature and in court, managing local/regional/national newspaper advertising placement, operating a press release service, and working to enhance the quality of the state’s newspapers.